Every time totalitarianism is tried, it devolves into mass killings by the government in power. Will we permit the rise of totalitarian rule? If we do, the result will be the same as it was in the 20th century. There will be no room for any bad thing to exist. Nothing and no one will be out of place. The totalitarian mind is similar to the schizophrenic mind. It sticks to its ideological model of the world in the face of disconfirming evidence. They tend to hate those who try to pierce its illusions.
“Humanity is arming itself, in dread and fascinated horror, for a stupendous crime.” Carl Jung, Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious While we cannot create a heaven on earth, we can create a hell and history is full of examples. Many of these man-made hells are the result of war and conquest, but many others are […]
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